Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shigeichi Negishi invented the first karaoke machine in 1967. The Sparko Box resulted in thousands of copycat versions being made.

TOKYO — After a decade in the karaoke business, lounge owner Kagura Muto has heard her share of sour notes. But business of late has been a different sort of flat. Under the white-hot spotlights at ...

TOKYO -- After a decade in the karaoke business, lounge owner Kagura Muto has heard her share of sour notes. But business of late has been a different sort of flat. Under the white-hot spotlights at ...

Earlier this weekend, in a bar somewhere in Tokyo, the cradle of karaoke, the Metamodern country singer treated some lucky Japanese to a killer rendition of Roy Orbison’s “Crying.” Simpson posted the ...

Switzerland’s SRF and Japanese broadcaster NHK have acquired Rise and Shine’s crowdpleaser “Karaoke Paradise.” Directed by Einari Paakkanen and produced by Marianne Mäkelä and Liisa Karpo for ...